1956Harold Jones passed away leaving Vancouver Tug to Beverly McCarvill O’Toole. During that time Arthur Lindsay and Captain James Stewart guided the company into a major expansion and rebuilding program

1962Vancouver Tug acquired Vancouver Barge Transportation

1963Vancouver Tug acquired Pacific Tanker

1965Vancouver Tug acquired Western Tug & Barge

1966Vancouver Tug launches the pride of their fleet – a 3500 horsepower, 136 foot tug named the Harold A. Jones

1969Vancouver Tug and Vancouver Shipyards purchased by Dillingham Corporation and vacated locations at the foot of Denman Street, in Vancouver, to move across Burrard Inlet to a 40 acre waterfront site at the foot of Pemberton Avenue, in North Vancouver

Island Tug & Barge

1924Island Tug & Barge formed by Harold B. Elworthy

1926Elworthy acquired Gardner Towing

1937Elworthy purchased a 1500 horsepower US Coastguard cutter named Snohomish, equipped it for towing and salvage and made it the company flagship

1954Island Tug & Barge acquired a vessel named Sudbury, which for more than a decade was BC’s most famous tug

1956Island Tug acquired Young & Gore

1958Island Tug acquired Victoria Tug

1960McAllister Towing, of Montreal, purchased Island Tug and then Griffiths Steamship Company in 1961

Seaspan is Born - Genstar Appears

1969Genstar Ltd. acquired Island Tug & Barge

1970Genstar joined with Dillingham Corporation to merge Island Tug and Vancouver Tug into a new corporate identity, Seaspan

1972Seaspan acquired FM Yorke & Sons Ltd.

1973Genstar obtained full ownership of Seaspan by purchasing Dillingham’s interest

Washington Companies

1992CH Cates and Sons purchased by Dennis Washington

1994Vancouver Shipyards (Esquimalt) Ltd. (now Victoria Shipyards) was created at the Public Works and Government Services’ Esquimalt Graving Dock to fill the void left when Yarrows Shipyard Limited went bankrupt

2011The Government of Canada formed a $7.3B partnership with Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards to build future state-of-the-art Non-Combat vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy under the National Shipbuilding Strategy.

2012Seaspan signs the NSS Umbrella Agreement with the Government of Canada making the new partnership official.

2013The Government of Canada announced that Vancouver Shipyards will build up to 10 additional large Non-Combat vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard under the National Shipbuilding Strategy, worth an estimated $3.3B.

2015Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards started construction on the first National Shipbuilding Strategy vessel, the Canadian Coast Guard’s Offshore Fisheries Science Vessel (OFSV).